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Title: Port of Houston, original cuts, Port of Houston, original cuts
Identifier: e_bb_5349
Creator: Bailey, Bob
Dates: circa 1951-1956
Resource: Bob Bailey Studios photographic archive
Description: Raw footage of the port of Houston, with shots of workers loading cotton and lumber onto ships, ships with flags, and aerial views of plants along the port [also used in e_bb_5268]. Also has shots of people playing golf, an aerial view of downtown Houston and the San Jacinto Monument. Color picture with no sound. From the creator's original order, some footage is backwards and upside-down. Bad splices caused film projector to lose loop during capture. Cinecap software processing did not completely eliminate pulldown effects.

Title: Recreation for Everybody, Recreation for Everybody
Identifier: e_bb_5048
Creator: Bailey, Bob
Dates: circa 1960-1978
Resource: Bob Bailey Studios photographic archive
Description: Footage of recreational activities for children of all ages: little league baseball, volleyball, ballroom dancing, roller skating, swimming, sketching, checking out books at the library and theatre. Color picture, no sound. Has a punch hole for synchronization. Additional writing on leader reads, "no. 1843, reel E." Projector lost loop multiple times during capture due to bad splices, causing slight pauses or image flutter at points where projector stopped.

Title: Rice vs. Texas, Rice vs. Texas
Identifier: e_bb_5262
Creator: Bailey, Bob
Dates: 1976-10-02
Resource: Bob Bailey Studios photographic archive
Description: Football gameplay footage with shots of the scoreboard when points are made. Color picture, no sound. Writing on leader reads, "Highlights, Rice Vs. Texas, Head, 10/2/76."

Title: Rice vs. Texas, Rice vs. Texas
Identifier: e_bb_5352
Creator: Bailey, Bob
Dates: 1980-10-04
Resource: Bob Bailey Studios photographic archive
Description: Football gameplay footage with shots of the scoreboard when points are scored. Touchdowns by Rice University seem to be spliced out of the footage. Color picture, no sound.

Title: Sam Houston [ship] and monorails, Sam Houston [ship] and monorails
Identifier: e_bb_5359
Creator: Bailey, Bob (Producer/Photographer)
Dates: circa 1953-1958
Resource: Bob Bailey Studios photographic archive
Description: A combination of unapparently-related clips of produced films and raw footage spliced together on the same reel by the creator. Includes clips on the christening of a ship named "Sam Houston," a Houston monorail system (with title cards in Japanese or Korean), workers on a construction site, workers at a switchboard and footage of Houston-area buildings and landmarks, including USS Texas, the Washburn Tunnel, and buildings of KNUZ-TV, City National Bank, Ezekiel W. Cullen and the University of Houston. Color and black-and-white picture with sound. Some segments are upside-down and backwards in relation to others. Pub version flips upside-down and backward segments.

Title: Sears Christmas Show, Sears Christmas Show
Identifier: e_bb_5037
Creator: Bob Bailey Studios
Dates: 1951
Resource: Bob Bailey Studios photographic archive
Description: African-American choir from St. John Baptist church, under the direction of S. A. Pleasance [sp?]. The choir performs two hymns. The first is unidentified, the second is "O Come, All Ye Faithful." Black and white picture with sound.

Title: Second National Bank All-Star Theatre, Second National Bank All-Star Theatre
Identifier: e_bb_5031
Creator: Bailey, Bob
Dates: 1954
Resource: Bob Bailey Studios photographic archive
Description: Description from can label: "'50's bank bldg. cu [close-up] 'McCarthy' headlines, neg trk. nite shot time/temp sign, inside bank." Exterior and interior shots of Houston's Second National Bank, with title cards for Second National All-Star Theater and a separate section of narration. Appears to be rough footage spliced together hastily, as evidenced by sections not matching in vertical orientation or direction. Consequently, some sections appear backwards or upside down in relation to others. Black and white picture with separate sound (sound and picture are not together). Multiple punch holes for synchronization.

Title: Shamrock Destruction, Olshan, original, Shamrock Destruction, Olshan, original
Identifier: e_bb_5032
Creator: Bailey, Bob
Dates: 1987
Resource: Bob Bailey Studios photographic archive
Description: Footage of the famous Houston hotel, the Shamrock, before and during demolition. Contains scenes of Olshan Foundation Repair wrecking balls smashing into the building and an empty swimming pool surrounded by rubble. Internegative color picture, no sound. Pub version inverts color and filters out blue light to approximate natural color.

Title: Silent Night, Silent Day, Silent Night, Silent Day
Identifier: e_bb_5055
Creator: Bailey, Bob (Photographer/Producer)
Contributor: Shaw, Melvin (Writer), Nagle, Dave (Narrator)
Dates: circa 1950-1959
Resource: Bob Bailey Studios photographic archive
Description: Film documenting teaching techniques and graduation ceremony at the Houston School for Deaf Children [The Center for Hearing and Speech]. Teaching focuses on speaking, lip-reading and handwriting, with no sign-language used. Color picture, no sound. Has a punch hole for synchronization, suggesting that there was a sound track created for this film. This capture replaces e_bb_5002 with a higher quality capture that includes the location of the synchronization punch hole.

Title: The Story of an Oil Well Drilled by the Rotary Method, The Story of an Oil Well Drilled by the Rotary Method
Identifier: e_bb_5028
Creator: The United States Department of the Interior Bureau of Mines (Producer)
Contributor: Humble Oil & Refining Co.
Dates: circa 1965
Resource: Bob Bailey Studios photographic archive
Description: Produced film consisting of motion pictures interspersed with title cards narrating and explaining the process of drilling for oil using the rotary system. Title cards suggest that the film takes place in the Goose Creek oil field of Harris County, Texas. Black and white negative picture, no sound. Writing on leader reads: "Begin #1, 'Oil Well', Humble Oil." Camera shakiness during title cards and sprocket holes printed on film indicate that this film may be copied from an earlier print.

Title: Teeth of Dragon, 1979 Bluebonnet Bowl [Composite], Teeth of Dragon, 1979 Bluebonnet Bowl [Composite]
Identifier: e_bb_5266
Creator: Bailey, Bob
Dates: 1979
Resource: Bob Bailey Studios photographic archive
Description: Produced film from the 1979 Bluebonnet Bowl, with footage of gameplay between Purdue University and the University of Tennessee, as well as fans, mascots and halftime celebrations. Sponsored by Tenneco. Briefly shows the sign for the Marriott Inn, Stouffer's Hotel, Regal Ranch and the name tag for Bluebonnet Bowl Director Weldon G. Humble. Color picture, no sound. Assembled by Briscoe Center staff from A and B roll using synchronization punch holes.

Title: Tenneco and the 200 Million [Composite], Tenneco and the 200 Million [Composite]
Identifier: e_bb_5044
Creator: Bailey, Bob (Photographer)
Contributor: Bransby, John (Writer/Editor)
Dates: circa 1970-1972
Resource: Bob Bailey Studios photographic archive
Description: Industrial film promoting companies owned or supplied by Tenneco. Shows signs or products for the Packaging Corporation of America, Case Power & Equipment, Tenneco Chemicals, Inc., Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Walker Manufacturing Company and Walgreens. Also contains footage of the Norm Nelson Automotive Superbird car and an anechoic chamber at Walker Engineering & Research Center. Color picture with sound. This is a composite version of the picture from e_bb_5042 with the soundtrack from e_bb_5043. Assembled by Briscoe Center staff with synchronized sound and picture standardized to e_bb_5041, with color for internegative film inverted and adjusted.

Title: Texas City Disaster, dupe [duplicate] neg [negative], Texas City Disaster, dupe [duplicate] neg [negative]
Identifier: e_bb_5051
Creator: Bailey, Bob
Dates: 1947
Resource: Bob Bailey Studios photographic archive
Description: Footage from the aftermath of 1947's Texas City Disaster. Black and white negative picture, no sound. This version has the same footage as e_bb_5001 [in color], but contains about a minute of extra material. Pub version inverts negative picture.

Title: Texas city fire and disaster, Texas city fire and disaster
Identifier: e_bb_5001
Creator: Bob Bailey Studios
Topic: Journalism
Dates: 1947
Resource: Bob Bailey Studios photographic archive

Title: Texas vs. Rice, Texas vs. Rice
Identifier: e_bb_5263
Creator: Bailey, Bob
Dates: 1971
Resource: Bob Bailey Studios photographic archive
Description: Football gameplay footage with shots of the scoreboard when points are scored. Begins with a close-up of the game's printed program. Color picture, no sound.

Title: Track meet, SWC [Southwestern Conference], Track meet, SWC [Southwestern Conference]
Identifier: e_bb_5267
Creator: Bailey, Bob
Dates: 1969-05-01
Resource: Bob Bailey Studios photographic archive
Description: Description from label on film can: "Shot put, javelin throw, high hurdles, 100 yd. sprint." Uniforms for Texas A&M feature prominently. Color picture, no sound.

Title: Tube Across Turkey, "Tube Across Turkey"
Identifier: e_bb_6419
Creator: Bob Bailey Studios
Dates: 1955
Resource: Bob Bailey Studios photographic archive
Description: Industrial film showing the installation of an oil pipeline by the Associated Pipe Line Contractors in the Republic of Turkey, with footage from Istanbul, Ankara, İskenderun, and Malatya, as well as a brief history of Turkey. Donated by Dr. Tom Allen.

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